Joseph C. Lincoln Mother Quotations

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

As my mother and 1 were alone in the world, and as I was to be a business man, it was decided that I had better not waste time in going to college.